Community Income, Healthy Food Access, and Repeat Surgery for Kidney Stones.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if limited food access census tracts and food swamp census tracts are associated with increased risk for repeat kidney stone surgery. And to elucidate the relationship between community-level food retail environment relative to community-level income on repeat stone surgery over time.

Methods

Data were abstracted from the University of California, San Francisco Information Commons. Adult patients were included if they underwent at least one urologic stone procedure. Census tracts from available geographical data were mapped using Food Access Research Atlas data from the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. Kaplan-Meier curves were employed to illustrate time to a second surgical procedure over 5 years, and log-rank tests w

SUBMITTER: Bayne D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9851910 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature